"Hey, Jing Xing...?"
When Yan Jingxing turned around and left the houseboat, the first person who noticed something strange was Ji Chunzao who had been following him.
"where are you going?"
Seeing that the boy was about to open the door and go out without saying a word, the little girl subconsciously stretched out her hand to grab his sleeve, but failed.
Yan Jingxing didn't look back and stepped forward with a focused look on his face. He didn't react in any way to her words. He only had one goal in his eyes.
He looked like he was staring at someone's back; but there was clearly nothing in front of him.
"Wait, don't leave!"
Ji Chunzao was really anxious now. She had realized that something was wrong and quickly followed his footsteps.
Her shout caught Xie Yuzhi's attention. The girl glanced towards the door and frowned.
"Uncle Liu, wait for us here, we will be back soon."
With that said, she followed the steps of the two men without hesitation and walked out of the house quickly.
"Hey, wait a minute..."
Liu Tie failed to call the eldest lady, so he had to throw down the banknotes, said, "I will find a car to take this thing away later" and left.
He turned one last time and looked into the room.
In the dim boathouse, the white "astronaut model" was lying quietly on the cement floor, motionless.
*
Yan Jingxing followed the "resurrected" astronaut for more than ten minutes before stopping in a daze.
At this time, he heard anxious shouts from beside him:
"Jing Xing, Jing Xing, what's wrong with you?! Wake up!"
Yan Jingxing was startled by the sudden loud voice. He subconsciously covered his ears and frowned at the girl standing next to him.
"Why are you shouting so loudly all of a sudden? I'm awake."
Ji Chunzao was stunned for a moment, then she put her hands on her hips, stared at him with dissatisfaction, and her voice became louder.
"Awake? I've called you several times, but you didn't answer!"
"Yes, yes..."
Yan Jingxing scratched the back of his head. He looked around and found that he was no longer in the boathouse and had no idea where he was. It wasn't until this moment that I felt like I suddenly came back to my senses.
At this time, Xie Yuzhi slowly walked over from a short distance away. She held her hands in front of her chest and looked at him carefully for a while, and then asked:
"Yan Jingxing, what happened just now? Did you see something?"
"Didn't you see it?"
Yan Jingxing asked strangely.
"The astronaut suddenly stood up and pushed the door open to go out. I thought it was strange, so I followed him out immediately..."
"How could it be!" Ji Chunzao said, "We all saw it clearly. When he came out, he was still lying there!"
"What?"
At this time, only Miss Xie still maintained a rare calmness.
"It's not surprising. This is not the first time this kind of thing has happened. In other words, Jing Xing, this is something only you can see, right?"
...Yes, the astronaut was the ghostly giant he saw in the cinema, and then dreamed about it again...
This time, "he" really came to reality from hallucinations and dreams, but there were still some things that only he could see.
"Looking at the dazed look on your face, you must be as confused as we are."
Xie Yuzhi sighed, put down his hands, and walked to him.
"We can't miss this opportunity, Jing Xing." She looked into his eyes seriously. "Every time 'astronaut' appears, he provides you with vital information. 'He' does not appear in front of you for no reason. There must be reasons that we cannot imagine, but are extremely crucial."
"...Yeah." Yan Jingxing nodded.
"Then can you still see 'him' now?" Did you stop just now because you saw clearly where he went? "
Yan Jingxing nodded again.
At this time, they had left near the dock of Shigang Village. The smell of seafood was no longer lingering in the surrounding air. Instead, there were lush woods and rolling green hills. At the foot of the mountains, there was a large farmland at the entrance of the village.
The summer wind blows in the face, and the hot breath is permeated with the fragrance of rice emitted by the transpiration of the paddy fields, creating a leisurely and pleasant rural scenery.
Frogs in the fields chirped tirelessly in the scorching heat of midsummer, and dragonflies flew between the field ridges and ponds.
Looking from a high place, you can see a white line in the distance, which is the embankment; and on the other side of the embankment is the boundless sea.
Yan Jingxing looked past the two girls in front of him and saw the white figure walking quietly on the field path.
"Let's go."
He took a deep breath.
"Let's go see where 'he' is taking us."
…
If someone could borrow Yan Jingxing's eyes and look down from the sky at this time, they would see an incredible, wonderful and absurd scene:
The verdant mountain forest and countless intertwined tree crowns undulate in the wind, like waves rolling up on the sea.
In the middle of the mountain forest, there is a twisting light yellow dirt road, and a white figure walks in front. It is an astronaut who has just crawled out of the belly of a whale. "He" wearing a white spacesuit should have been in the universe. Taking a stroll, now I am walking on the dirt road step by step;
Following closely behind were a few young and young-looking girls, chasing the astronauts as they walked in the mountains:
Further away, there is an adult who is anxiously looking for the traces of them...
*
Yan Jingxing stopped, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and looked in front of him.
It looked like a cave. There were obvious traces of man-made pipes at the entrance, and a rusty iron fence blocked half of it.
The vines hanging down from the entrance of the cave are growing densely and appear green.
That "ghost astronaut" went inside.
"Finally we're here."
Yan Jingxing realized that his destination was just ahead and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Following an inexplicable guy wandering around in the mountains and forests aimlessly without knowing the specific distance or time, the psychological burden is quite heavy.
After arriving in the mountains, the temperature became cooler, but the sunlight falling above his head was still very strong, and the shade of the trees could not completely block him. In addition, he was already sweating profusely from walking on the difficult and rugged path.
"Okay, the astronaut's destination is here, we can take a rest..."
He turned around and said to the two girls following him.
Both Ji Chunzao and Xie Yuzhi were so tired that they were dripping with sweat and panting. Ji Chunzao was even worse, looking as if he was about to faint as he was swaying, just like a mermaid who forgot that he was an aquatic animal after changing his tail and landing on the shore.
Fortunately, Xie Yuzhi was supporting her, otherwise Yan Jingxing was really afraid that she would accidentally step on the air and fall down the mountain.
In addition, it's not that he doesn't want to help, but it would be a bit embarrassing if he took the initiative to speak in this situation...
It was summer, and the girls were all wearing thin clothes. Their light-colored tops and long skirts soaked with sweat clung tightly to their skin, outlining their youthful body curves. The clothes appeared translucent and see-through in the sunlight. Out of lust.
Yan Jingxing blushed subconsciously after just a few glances, and turned his head away, not daring to look further.
"arrive?"
Xie Yuzhi walked to him, smoothed the hair in front of her forehead with her little finger, and stared at the cave side by side with him.
"Well, I think the astronauts walked into this hole."
Yan Jingxing's eyes were fixed in front of him, with no intention of drifting anywhere else, and he replied in a serious tone.
"I discovered something along the way."
Miss Xie did not notice someone's strangeness and said equally seriously.
"Um?"
"There are roads everywhere we pass. We have never entered a real mountain forest - if this were not the case, I would have stopped long ago, and I would feel that I need to be more fully prepared before entering. But now... …”
The girl blocked the sun with her hands, and her bright eyes flashed slightly as she stared at the deep entrance of the cave.
"We can already conclude that although the road we walked seems to be inaccessible now, more than one person must have traveled frequently before. Including this cave, it was obviously built artificially."
"...Yes." Yan Jingxing guessed hesitantly, "This could be an air-raid shelter? I heard from my uncle that there are many similar places on the mountain in Baiyue Town..."
"Haah, haah..."
At this time, Ji Chunzao finally walked to the place side by side with them. While fanning his hands to blow air into the open area of the collar, he stuck out his pink tongue like a puppy that was too hot.
"Hey, you two, don't be stuck here. Are you ready to go in?"
She complained weakly and looked like she was really dying.
"Okay, let's go in and have a look."
Yan Jingxing made a decision.
"Find a shady place to sit down and rest for a while."
…
There was a rusty iron door at the entrance of the cave, which was unlocked and pushed open with a hard knock.
The net made of vines hangs down like a necklace woven with silk threads. Entering it feels like Monkey Monkey walked into the Water Curtain Cave for the first time in Journey to the West.
"Take this."
Xie Yuzhi, who was following Yan Jingxing, poked his back and handed over a small flashlight.
"You still have this with you?"
"Yeah. I usually carry a flashlight, GPS and Swiss Army Knife with me."
…Where are you an explorer from?
Yan Jingxing looked at the shirt skirt she was wearing with some suspicion. He really didn't know where the pockets for putting those things were hidden.
He turned on the flashlight, and the dim yellow light beam left an oval light spot on the cave wall, and walked cautiously inside.
Surprisingly, the area inside the cave is not spacious. It is like a cave used for hibernation. The size inside may not be as big as Miss Xie's bedroom.
The three of them quickly walked around the cave wall and found a bunch of marching quilts, a bed, a stack of folders and archives made of cut-out newspapers, as well as a small generator and a radio. , several boxes of military compressed biscuits, and a homemade simple distilled water device.
Looks like someone's hideout.
Everything was covered in dust and had been there for a long time.
The materials that could be found in the cave were all made of paper and were contaminated by the damp moisture in the cave. Some of the papers were stuck together. In order to avoid accidental damage, everyone decided not to open them for the time being and take them back. Dry.
Besides, there is something more worthy of attention in this cave right now——
"Uh, this is a... flying saucer?"
Yan Jingxing circled twice around the huge metal ball placed in the center of the cave, with surprise in his tone.
Although it is said to be a round ball, it is not actually a regular "round". Instead, it is convex in the middle and flat on both sides. It is this shape that makes people more likely to think of things like flying saucers and UFOs.
There were already spots of rust on the surface of the flying saucer; there were two small oval glass windows, and the seals seemed to be intact, but the contents inside could not be seen clearly.
"Really, is it a UFO? Is it, left behind by aliens..."
Ji Chunzao's tongue started to get knotted when he spoke.
"Yeah?"
Xie Yuzhi showed a suspicious expression.
"Isn't this the kind of facility in an amusement park?"
Yan Jingxing and Ji Chunzao looked at each other and spoke in unison.
"Sorry, I've never been to an amusement park."
"Me too."
The eldest lady choked for a moment before continuing.
"... In short, if it is really the legendary spacecraft that can bring aliens to the earth, at least it must have a 'high-tech feel' beyond human imagination from the outside."
She shook her head.
"For example, the corresponding molecular material technology required to travel across the universe, as well as the huge energy supply device... I can't see these."
She stretched out a finger and stroked the surface of the flying saucer.
"...It just feels like ordinary rusty metal. It's more likely that this thing was imitated by humans."
Xie Yuzhi turned around and looked at Yan Jingxing.
"Where's the astronaut? 'He' got in here?"
No, I didn't see it. The guy disappeared after entering the hole——
Just as Yan Jingxing was about to answer, he felt a heavy dizziness in his head, and his eyes were spinning.
He subconsciously wanted to open his arms to maintain balance and staggered forward a few steps.
Some kind of huge light erupted in the center of the cave, drowning the two girls in his field of vision.
What ensues is a plethora of fragmented scenes:
The astronauts trekking in the boundless alien forest, the red sky, the monsters floating in the sky blocking out the sun, and the tall tower standing in the middle of the wilderness.
Time is running backwards.
Back before the astronauts logged in to the unknown planet, Yan Jingxing saw "him" walking into the cave, turning on the radio, and sitting in a facility similar to a UFO flying saucer. The shape of that thing is exactly the same as the machine in the cave, but it's not rusty...
Accompanied by an earth-shaking loud noise and a dazzling light erupting like a lightning storm, the astronaut's figure appeared on the planet...
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
Yan Jingxing covered his forehead, screamed and fell back.
Fortunately he didn't come alone.
Two forces from different people supported him from behind, preventing him from falling to the ground.
"Jing Xing, Jing Xing, what's wrong with you?"
He heard someone shouting anxiously. He felt like he was in a huge whirlpool, and the sound came from the faint sky above.
At this time, Yan Jingxing could no longer tell which girl was talking. He closed his eyes tightly and shouted out the truth he saw before he forgot it:
"It's... it's that flying saucer! It... it can send people to another planet!"
